Reporter or, was it all for show . Mishappen at her house. Was this crime all but it seemed . She played such a good game, that people didnt know. A price was coming. You dont know what to thing. It would arrive from beyond the grave. Oh, my government clad. Oh, my god there has not been a story like this ever in Palm Beach County history. Is she the villain . Is she the victim . Who knows . That is what makes her riveting. And she is, infamous, and probably will be forever. Reporter the mismerizing story with a fittingly preposterous new ending, begins in a play where conspicuous consumption and envy index as high as the humidity. Palm beach, florida. It is the Winter Wonderland of the wealthy. You can drive over the bridge and immediately feel the rarified air, the mansions and the hedges that hide the mansions. And of course now maralago, Donald Trumps winter home. Reporter Palm Beach PostSenior Editor jan tuckwood, says some mainlanders cant resist the wannabe allure of palm beach. Most people on the mainland are influenced. That richness is right there, and how can they get a piece of it . Reporter over the bridge, past the interstate, newlyweds dalia and Mike Dippolito, lived in a quartermillion dollar condo in high and dry Boynton Beach. Not exactly the same zip code as palm beach but perfectly fine for two upandcomers. Dalia and mike had big dreams like any couple young and in love. Aspirational, at the very least. She, had a 20,000 dollar diamond engagement ring. He had a porsche in the garage. Their story for public consumption, the grated version, was love at first sight. Mike was an internet entrepreneur and dalia the businesswoman he fell head over heels for. Three months after their first meeting, marriage was inevitable. There was a teensy problem in their paradise, Mike Dippolito was married. Lawyers jason brodie and Josh Friedman arranged a Quickie Divorce so the ballad of mike and dalia could begin. He fell in love with her. He thought she was the endall, beall. He felt as though, this was it. And im gonna have a family with her and were gonna grow old together. He thought she was the real deal . They hit it off right away. They had a lot of things in common. They enjoyed the same things. Dalia is a Real Estate Agent . Yes. And thats what attracted him to her. Was that she was, successful on her own and didnt need him. Are we talkin about sexual attraction, or is there more going on here . Oh, theres sexual attraction. Yeah, absolutely. Reporter with the divorce in hand, mike and dalia dashed to the courthouse to marry, and soon fell into comfortable routines. Morning workouts at the gym, steamy date nights at fivestar hotels and love notes on the fridge. He seemed to be dalias dream guy. And three months into the marriage, according to michael, she told him she was pregnant. He was thrilled. Life was good. But early one morning in august 2009, it all came to an end for the two, with a finality as certain as crime scene tape strung across the front of the condo. Dalia had been located at her 6 00am workout by the Boynton Beach police. This is Sargent Frank ranzie, Boynton BeachPolice Department. Is everything okay . Maam, i need to talk to you. Its very urgent. When you come home, it involves your husband. Theres been an incident. Reporter she was instructed to get home right away. When she arrived, she saw police cars out front, everything that spells disaster just ahead. It just so happened a camera crew from the tv show cops was there, filming an episode with Boynton Beach police, when dalia got the awful news. Ms. Dippolito . Im sgt. Ranzie. Im the one that called you. Thank you for coming. Im sorry to call you. Listen, we had a report about a disturbance at your house. Reporter the officer was direct with dalia. He said thered been an intruder in the house and several shots were fired. Is your husband michael . Okay, im sorry to tell you, maam, hes been killed. Hes been killed maam. Oh no oh no. I want to see him. I cant let you see him, maam. We have to do our job. Reporter Michael Dippolito, her husband of six months, gunned down in their townhouse. The cops were telling her, but she would not be allowed to go inside to see the body. I need you to go with these detectives okay . Oh no. No. If you want to help your husband, you need to go with these gentlemen, and tell you know about who he knows and who hes connected to reporter the investigation was only minutes old and the officers told dalia theyd need her cooperation in understanding what had happened. Were going to do everything we can. Okay . So we need your help. We need to get your husbands killer maam. 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And this is charlie not coughing because he took delsym 12hour. This is charlie not coughing while trying not to wake zeus. This is charlie not coughing while sitting very still. And this is charlie not coughing while getting a little too into nanas party. Because he took delsym. Nothing lasts longer for powerful cough relief. Delsym. The joy of not coughing. And dont forget kids 4 and up. Delsym is 1 pediatrician recommended. Dahlia dippolito had been called home from the gym to be told by police out front that an intruder had murdered her husband, michael. Is your husband michael . Okay, im sorry to tell you, maam, hes been killed. Hes been killed maam. Oh, no oh, no. Reporter dalia was rushed to the Boynton BeachPolice Department for the start of interviews. She began by telling the detectives that michael, her deceased husband, wasnt exactly squeaky clean. Hes been trying to get off probation. Uhhuh. And its just been nothing but problems the whole time that hes been trying to get off. Reporter Mike Dippolito, she said, was a convicted felon, a swindler whod bilked thousands of dollars from gullible investors by selling them phony currency securities. It was for taking money of like, he explained like boiler room, kind of where they would take money from people. Reporter in other words, her murdered husband was a guy with enemies. When he was released from prison after seven months, he was still looking at more than 25 years of probation. He had been ordered to make restitution to the victims hed fleeced, an outstanding i. O. U. Of 191,000. People werent happy that he was getting off probation, because its a lot of money hes got to pay back. Reporter find out who he owed, suggested dalia, and youll find the killer. The cops listened, but changed the focus of their questioning to the couple themselves, dalia and michael, the newlyweds of six months. Were fine, like theres nothing, you know you have no problems between you guys. No financial problems no i mean with your family, you and him. No, theres nothing. I mean, we, you know, were going through his business has slowed down like anything, you know. Reporter but the cops were toying with dalia, holding back their best cards. They thought they knew so much more about the newlyweds. Did they ever. Lets freeze the action in the Interview Room for a sec and roll everything back a few days. Thats when a man walked into the Boynton Beach p. D. With a lurid story to tell. His married lover, he said, was shopping for a hitman. Detective alex moreno didnt know what to make of this walkin. At first, when hes giving you this information, you dont know what to think, you know. Heres a guy whos claiming that hes sleeping with a guys wife. And now, shes trying to get somebody to kill him. Its a pretty juicy story. Exactly. Reporter detective moreno had the tipster run his story down from the top. The man was named mohamed and he said he was a parttime actor who worked at a convenience store. As he told it, hed been friends with benefits with a woman for years. They met for the occasional casual sex. Then she asked him for help in finding a hitman to kill her husband. He says, you know what, yeah. Im sleeping with this guys wife. But at the same time, i didnt want this guy to be killed. And that was his concern. He couldnt sleep with that whole idea that this guy was gonna get killed. Reporter but the detective wondered if he was being sold a cock and bull story since this mohamed guy didnt seem to even know very much about the woman he claimed to be sleeping with. The detective challenged him all the information he had was her first name. He didnt know where she lived. He didnt even know who her husband was. Reporter while they debated whether or not the tipsters story was credible, they knew that a life may be on the line. So the detectives took it to the next level. They enlisted mohamed as a confidential informant, and gave him a story to tell his parttime lover, that hed found her a hitman who could pull off the job. Two things could have happened. Either this guy was lying to us or it was true. We hadnt validated the information yet until he actually makes contact. Reporter mohamed, the tipster, set up an assignation with the woman for the very next day. The car that he drove to the gas station Meeting Point had been rigged by Police Technicians for pictures and sound. Undercover agents nearby would be watching the whole time to find out who this woman was, where she lived, who her husband was and just what the heck was going on. She came down the street. Came into the gas station. Immediately, we picked up the car. And not only are we watchin her, were also hearing whats goin on in the informants car, live. Hey, whats up . I love you. I love you, too. Reporter running down the license plates and registration yielded the name of a 26yearold woman, dahlia dippolito, the same woman who would later be seen on that videotape as the grieving widow. Police officers didnt have to wait long before the informants story was confirmed. This woman in the car really appeared to be in the market for a trigger man. Less than a minute or so, she begins talking about hiring somebody to kill her husband. Unprompted . Hes not doing dental work get this story out of her no. Which, you know, which shocked us. Honestly, you think its worth you know killing over that much money . Its not even over the [ bleep ] money. Like you dont [ bleep ] get it . Like its not even about the [ bleep ] money. Like, you know that money, well spend it, like, in the [ bleep ] blink of an eye. Reporter the meeting seemed to be all business. Dalia produced photos of her husband for mohamed to hand over to the hitman. I brought pictures. No, just give me one picture of him. I dont want to carry too much paper. Reporter dalia brought Something Else the hitman had requested cash to buy the gun that would be used. I brought 1200. Hes asking for 1200 . Yes. When are you going to give him the money and [ bleep ] . Today. Hes coming by the store. She turns the money over . Yes. Is that a crime, detective, at that moment . Its not enough yet. We didnt have enough yet. We wanted to go a little bit further with this case. Reporter the police were about to test dalia to see if she was determined to have her new husband killed. Im positive, like 5,000 percent sure. Reporter another undercover sting and a plan is set in motion for a deadly house call. They say, at a ci wonder what you just stage that is . 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All he does is get it done and thats it, you know . Right. All right, good. Reporter so the police instructed their informant, a man named mohamed, to help set up another meeting with dalia. This time it would be with the hit man who would be, of course, an Undercover Police officer an agent. Same drill again. A Meeting Place outside a store. And a car wired for video and audio. Hey . Hey. Were staying in here, right . All right, yeah, yeah. Okay. Man, you look good. Thank you. Reporter in that meeting they began making plans. She also tells our hit man where they live. She provides a schedule where her husband goes comes and goes in the morning, where hes going to be the next day. It shows her intent. And the fact that here she is meeting with a complete stranger who she believes its a hit man she actually goes as far as saying, hey, id rather if it happened here. How are we gonna do it successfully if we go ahead and do it at, like, at the house, like, how do we how do we how soon could you do it . She just wants it done and the sooner the better. Reporter does your agent give her a door out at this point . Yes. He asked her more than once if she was sure if this is what she wanted done. She laughs about it and says, yeah, once i set my mind to do somethin, i do it. You definitely want to do this . Im positive, like, 5,000 sure. Reporter the pretend hit man told her hed use a gun. Give him a taptap. He gets two in the head. Thats it. You know . Our undercover agent tells her, hey, im gonna put two in his head, meaning two shots to the head, and it doesnt even faze her. No remorse. Reporter dalia and the hit man, who was really an undercover cop, seemed to agree that he would kill her husband in two days time. He told her to be prepared to go to the gym early that morning. By the time you get back from the gym, you are going to find two things his dead body in the house, all right, or nothing. All right. Reporter the day before, he called dalia with further instructions. Tomorrow morning, you gotta be out by 6 00. Okay. Doesnt hesitate, doesnt change her mind, none of that. She just says, okay. And thats it. Reporter the next morning, everything was going according to plan. Dalia left for the gym. Undercover cops tailing her. One of our sergeants makes a phone call while she is at the gym. And then we inform her that something happened at her house and she needs to get to the house fast. She doesnt know details. She just knows something has happened, get home quickly. Yes. And she shows up at the house, and once again, she makes contact with our sergeant. And shes informed of her husbands death, that hes been killed. Im sorry to tell you, maam. Hes been killed. Hes been killed, maam. Oh, no no. Dear god, no. If you look at that video, she begins to react before shes even told the whole story. According to that sergeant who was actually making contact with her, he didnt see any tears. Reporter and when they brought her to the Police Station, investigators were curious to see how far dalia would push her scenario blaming the murder on one of her husbands former enemies. The detectives were carefully watching her interview on a tv monitor in a nearby room. People werent happy that he was getting off probation because its a lot of money hes got to pay back. She mentioned how he had enemies, he was on probation. She didnt even bother to ask how it happened. Reporter to their experienced eyes and ears, dalia was making a few mistakes in how she was telling her theory of the crime. But they wanted to push her some more, see if they could get her to confess to her suspected murder plot then and there. Would she be obviously rattled when they led in a familiar face, the person she believed to be the hit man . Bring this guy in here. Get over here. Get over here. You know who this guy is . No. Youve never seen him before. Ive never seen him before, ever. Reporter the man before her, actually the Undercover Police officer, was presented to dalia here as someone theyd just nabbed for the killing of her husband. Do you know her . Mm. Put your head up and look at her. Put your head up. Ive never seen him. Reporter the detectives finally put their cards on the table. They told dalia that they knew this was the supposed hit man. And that meeting where they planned to kill her husband . All recorded on tape. Thats an Undercover Police officer. We filmed everything that you did. We recorded everything that you did. Youre going to jail for solicitation of firstdegree murder of your husband. I didnt do anything. Did you hear what i just told you . I heard what you said, but i didnt do anything. Everything you listen to me. Everything has been recorded. You are photographed in the convertible when you sat at his car in the front of cvs. What do you want to do . Oh, my god. Reporter rock steady to all appearances, dalia swore up and down she had nothing to do with the death of her husband. But the police had another surprise for her, truly a humdinger. They were about to walk a ghost to the doorway of the Interview Room. Oh, my god hes alive. Someone is back from the grave. To lower a1c and blood sugar, but for people with type 2 diabetes treating their cardiovascular disease, victoza® is also approved to lower the risk of major cv events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. While not for weight loss, victoza® may help you lose some weight. announcer victoza® is not for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. 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Dalia didnt know it then, but her husband Michael Dippolito was still very much alive, and was about to come face to face with his wife of six months, who seemed to want him dead. Im thinkin in my head, im lucky. Im lucky. But im like, im so screwed right now. The worst day in the world. Before waking up that day, Michael Dippolito was Clueless Police thought his wife of six months had hired a hit man to kill him. Instead, he believed he and dalia had begun a loving new chapter together. They were about to start a family. She told him she was pregnant. Dalia was at the gym when those tv cameras from the reality show cops captured the Moment Police knocked on mikes front door. Police Department Open your door sorry. Im Sergeant Sheridan from the boynton Police Department. Yes, hi. Can i talk to you . Yes, for sure. We say, hey, listen, this is what were doing. Weve been conducting an investigation. He says, your wife is gonna have you killed today. You have to come with us. And i just looked at him. And im like i mean, it hit me. You dont hear those words every day . No. The officers told michael he had to come with them right away to the Boynton BeachPolice Station before his wife got back from the gym. So, grab your stuff, get in the car. Were outta here. Yes. Meanwhile, outside his townhouse, the police were starting to stagedress a phony murder scene, all to trick dalia into thinking the hit man she had apparently hired had successfully completed the job. [ crying ] police recorded those moments, as did the crew from the cops tv show. But the murky involvement of a tv show would later complicate accusations against dalia. At the station, the detectives cued up their own Surveillance Videos showing mike the husband dalias two meetings as she seemed to shop for a hit man. Im positive, like 5,000 sure. Then the police allowed michael to watch his wivess realtime Police Interrogation going on in another room. Dalia, who had no idea her husband was alive, told her police interviewer she had nothing to do with whatever had happened to him even after they brought in the undercover cop who posed as her hit man. Put your head up and look at her. Put your head up. Ive never seen him. Im watching, and im just watching and im waiting for her to give it up. And you know what . The girl never gave it up. Were going to go ahead and arrest. Reporter dahlia dalia was arrested and handcuffed. And cameras were still rolling when Police Walked a verymuch alive michael into the doorway of the interrogation room. Oh, my god. Hes alive. And they say, you know this guy . And im standin there, probably from twice the distance of us. Come here please. Come here. I cant. You cant fix this. Why not . I didnt do anything to you. I heard you. Mike, come here please. Come here. And thats when she says, come here. I love you. I love you. And and i told her. I said, look, i cant. You know, i said you cant fix this. Reporter now it was michaels turn to tell the police his story warts and all, correcting for the record that love at first sight fairytale. I i can tell ya i didnt meet her in a church. She is actually an escort. Thats how i met her. She came to my office one day. Reporter dalia denies she was an escort. And though mike describes ordering her up from an escort service, he claims even now there was a mutual attraction that went far beyond that initial transaction. When i met dalia we seemed to connect instantly. We hit it off right away. It wasnt just bed . No. It was everything about it. We just clicked, you know, be it our sex life, be it just our spare time, be it the things we liked, all that. And it just happened. Reporter three months after they met, michael divorced his first wife and married dalia that same week. I had just purchased a home, and were gonna start a life together. And we talked about traveling and doing things, you know, and we had, like, a future planned. Reporter but there was a hitch to michaels future, the terms of his probation prevented him from leaving south florida. So the couple consulted a lawyer and his advice was pay off that 191,000 you owe in restitution and you have a fair chance of getting the probation lifted. So that was your ticket to freedom . Pay back the money and yeah. And get my freedom. You know, and dalia said she would help me with some of the money, about 90,000. And im like, absolutely, lets do it. Reporter michael says he and dalia agreed that they would pool their money to pay off dipollitos debt. This is great. You know, shes pushing me forward, too. I thought, like, okay, im gonna get off probation. Its very exciting for me. Then the plan to get michael out of hock changed again. According to michael, another lawyer said to him, look, you own your townhouse free and clear, why not just turn the title over to dalia . Then she can do money things for you, no problem. So michael gave her the deed to the town house as well as 100,000 cash. His part of the payback of the restitution debt. The money was supposed to go to his attorney but it never got there. Ill tell ya where it unraveled. As soon as i got dalia that 100,000 is where it went downhill. Reporter and he says, after dalia got that nice sized chunk of change, he started to have a string of runins with the police, including one night after dinner out with dalia. They left the restaurant to find the police swarming michaels vehicle. After a search, they found cocaine stashed beneath a spare tire. I actually started crying to this cop. And im like, look man, i havent done anything in five and a half years. I dont know how, why or what happened. They let me go. I couldnt even believe it. And you wouldve gone back to prison because you violated probation . Uh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Reporter now, he didnt want to think that light of his life could be behind something as nefarious as getting him thrown back in prison but the idea was there, maybe dalia. I said to her, i said you know, only when im with you. My life isnt this exciting. In 5 1 2 years on probation, i didnt have one run in with the police. Im with this girl six months. And the whole Police Department knows me. I might as well glow fluorescent so, youre lookin at her sideways . Im just like, im doin the best i can to be a good husband, give her a chance. No reason to believe shes faking it with you . No. I mean, she may have been a bad actress the day they caught her on camera, but as far as with me, she was an Academy Award winner. Reporter he says dalia also seemed to be playing the role as an expectant mother. There never was a baby, was there, mike . Never was a baby. Reporter another thing that dalia was not expecting was the formal charge being filed against her, solicitation to commit firstdegree murder with a firearm. Hello. Hello. Hey, its me. Reporter but even after her arrest, dalia phoned michael from jail, pleading with him to get her an attorney, claiming the cops had gotten it all wrong. What theyre saying is not true. You said you wanted to have me killed. I heard that. Whats your problem . Thats not true. That is not true. How is it not true . Theyre charging your [ bleep ]. Dont you get it . Mike, i didnt do anything. She wont give it up. I didnt do it. I didnt do it. Why arent you helping me . You know, i love you, and over and over. And im like, are you kidding . I said, well what do you want me to do . Youre supposed to get me an attorney please so i can talk to you. Reporter even though she would later be released under house arrest, while still in jail dalia begged the guy she was accused of trying to kill, to help her find a lawyer to beat the charge. Michael saw the phone call as an opportunity to play lets make a deal. I said, get me my house back, less of all the problems and legal bills. I said, and ill get you a lawyer. So listen, sign my property back to me and ill help you. Ok . Im not signing anything. So i cant help you. Reporter and because of floridas strong open records laws, her jailhouse phone calls and all the Police Surveillance tapes made by the Boynton Beach cops would become public. They were out there, viral, on youtube. [ crying ] reporter those images of dalia boohooing online would be seen by thousands of viewers who lambasted her in the comments section. But the people with the only opinion that mattered werent convened on youtube. They were in a west palm beach, florida, courtroom. 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Lead prosecutor liz parker would introduce a trove of evidence, photographs, audio recordings and videos including that sting in which dalia tells an undercover cop posing as a hitman that she wanted her husband Mike Dippolito dead, a. S. A. P. Im positive, like 5000 sure. It was unreal. It was like something out of a movie. Reporter dalia had already spent almost two years under house arrest in her mothers home by the time the trial began in april of 2011. They say love is blind. In this case, love was blind, deaf and dumb. Reporter the jury would hear the prosecution argue that the sixmonth marriage of michael and dalia was a fraud from the beginning. She made him believe that this was an amazing marriage. He never wanted to believe that his wife, the person that he loved more than anything, wanted to have him killed. Reporter the prosecutor said dalia was juggling two lovers on the side and was trying to enlist each of them in getting her husband bumped off. Shes playing all of these guys. Theyre all thinking, theyre the one. And the only person that she cared about was herself. Reporter detective alex moreno read back Text Messages dalia wrote about her husband to her lovers. I really hate him and want to see him rot. Just want my life with you. Lets get this [ bleep ] arrested. Reporter to the prosecution, her scheme was apparent plant drugs on michael, tip the cops and get him busted back to prison on a parole violation. She tries for months to have him arrested. Reporter the alleged motive greed. Prosecutors said she wanted to keep michaels condo and his money all for herself. But when the schemes didnt work out, argued the prosecution, dalia settled on the fatal solution. Shed simply have michael killed so everything would be hers. Sure you want this dude killed . Reporter the prosecutions case looked airtight with all those mesmerizing tapes of dalia plotting out a murder, and also that video from the cops tv show with her looking unglued as she learned of her husbands murder. What no one could have predicted, though, was dalias defense. We live in a world where people seeking their 15 minutes of fame lose all sense of judgment and common sense. Reporter dalias defense attorney Michael Salnick said this whole crazy story was in fact all about dalias husband vanity and his thirst for fame. It was mike who was really behind the faked murder, its mastermind, just so he could be known beyond Boynton Beach. Mike dippolitos hoax to orchestrate his own murder to achieve fame and fortune was a bad prank. It was never anyones intention to harm anyone. Reporter the defense argued it was all a tv pitch, michael auditioning for his big break. The evidence will show that the plot for the contract killing of Mike Dippolito was never real. Mike dippolito hoped to capture the attention of someone in reality tv. Reporter the defense attorney argued that dalia was in on the reality show idea the whole time. That scene out front of dalia wailing . Acting, said the defense. Dalia knew that mike wasnt harmed and hers is a fake reaction to a fake event. Reporter the defense pushed Michael Dippolito hard on cross examination, accusing him of dragging dalia down with his stupid idea of being a tv star. This whole reality thing was actually orchestrated by you, wasntt it . I dont know what youre talking about. The silliest thing ive ever heard. I mean, uh, completely made up. All right. Lets bring in our jury, please. Reporter and after two weeks of trial testimony, the jury agreed. We find the defendant guilty of solicitation to commit firstdegree murder. Reporter in the end, the judge sentenced her to 20 years, and gave dalia a piece of his mind before sending her behind bars. It was weeks and months that you continued with these different schemes to try to rid yourself of your husband. It was pure evil. Reporter but that wasnt the final note in the ballad of mike and dalia. In a move that surprised the prosecution just three months after sentencing, the judge who called dalia pure evil allowed her to post a 500,000 bond. She was released from jail and was again placed under house arrest while she appealed her conviction. Fast forward three years, and dalia won her appeal for a new trial. The judge in her first trial failed to properly filter jurors for potential bias and exposure to pretrial publicity. Reporter Brian Claypool is one of dalias new lawyers. Some of the jurors said she was guilty in front of the entire jury pool, which contaminated the jury pool. Reporter and so more than seven years after Dalia Dippolito was charged with hiring a hitman to kill her husband, she would go on trial again. 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And at that point, he lifted his shirt and showed me his gun. And he threatened me. He threatened to hurt me. He threatened to hurt my family. Reporter mohamed the informant denies threatening her or participating in a reality tv production. The reality tv defense seems to play into this whole story. Reporter Palm Beach PostSenior Editor jan tuckwood says dalias defense was weirdly appropriate. It just seems to make total sense because the whole story doesnt make sense. So, you just throw in that angle. I wanna be famous, so lets do this stunt, if it was a stunt. It just adds to the weirdness. Reporter the story didnt fly with the new judge, and the motion to dismiss was thrown out. And so in december 2016, dalia showed up at the Palm Beach County courthouse once again new trial, new jury. Prosecutor Craig Williams ease version of the 2009 event was the same as ever, though a skeleton of the full story. It is 100 her words, her actions and her intent, 100 person. Reporter we have it all on tape, he said. Where they were trapped in own version of the cops show. Reporter this time the story was that dalia was a victim of Domestic Abuse. You cant break the rules and then be rewarded by breaking the rules. And thats really what this case is about. Everybody is entitled to a to a Police Investigation that has integrity. This never really was a credible Police Investigation. Rather, Dalia Dippolito was used as a pawn by the Boynton BeachPolice Department to manufacture good tv for the cops tv show. Reporter dalias Defense Attorneys said Boynton Beach police undermined its own investigation when the Public Information officer had the video posted online. So within several hours of video footage by cops and Boynton Beach p. D. You went over back to the Police Department and you posted this on youtube. Correct . Correct. And you knew at that time that there was a pending criminal investigation of Dalia Dippolito. Correct . Correct. Reporter in the end, dalias team contended Boynton Beach p. D. Had violated dalias Constitutional Rights. Jurors, they said look at the motives of the men running the Surveillance Video and find their target, dalia, not guilty. This was a Police Department in love with publicity and by virtue of that they tossed Dalia Dippolito under the bus. A Police Department cant toss a clients Constitutional Rights under the bus to make good television. Reporter the defense rested and dalia waited for a jury of six to decide her fate. Meanwhile, dalia flanked by her attorneys looming large spoke exclusively to dateline. For the past seven years, i mean, this has been a complete nightmare. Reporter she told us her nightmare began as the victim of Domestic Abuse an accusation her now exhusband michael strongly denies. Were here because they turned what should have been a complaint, and and getting me help, and you know, questioning me and stuff into this big production for a cops, you know, tv show deadline that they had. And they just started manufacturing all of these things, and creating these scenarios, and and putting me in these situations that look horrible. Reporter the police say they did not ignore a Domestic Abuse case. They were trying to stop a murderforhire plot. And those cops tv cameras didnt change the substance of their investigation. Did you wanna have your husband, mike, dead . No. Were you soliciting his his murder as youre charged with in this courthouse. No, absolutely no, no. Reporter after nearly ten hours, half the the jury seemed to agree. We still cannot reached a unanimous verdict. Meanwhile, Mike Dippolito was glued to the tv, beside himself. Shes on video saying she wants me killed. Reporter he said he believed the jury was distracted by defense team hocuspocus. What im saying to you, everybody in the world, sad to say, she basically beat the legal sim twice now. Do you think she should do hard time. Honestly i would like to see her go and taste it. She went home again to her new baby boy, a child fathered by a man with an extensive rap sheet. Last june, she went on trial again for the third time. This time the prosecutors, who had come up short with their shorthand account, presented the full shakespearean version of dalias story. Murdered her had you had, put two bullets in his head. Reporter this time the judge admitted testimony previously not presented, that she within tried to poising her husband. She researched something about some kind of antifreeze thats odorless, doesnt have a smell, doesnt have a color, and she is put it in his tea. And that she had previously tried to hire a hit man before the murder for hire plot that was caught on tape, and lurid Text Messages were read out between dalia and her love, in which she discussed framing mike by planting cocaine and then alerting police. We need drugs in the car and it will put him away for a while. Reporter this time the defense wasnt strong enough. After 0 minutes, the jury returned its verdict. We find of defendant guilty. Dalia was taken away, her family sobbing. The follow month after a crushing victim impact statement from Mike Dippolito the girl tried killing me probably three or four times, handing me annized tea with antifreeze in it, smiling at me. Reporter she was sentenced to 16 years in state prison. A month later she was back in court again, her lawyers arguing the trial wasnt valid, because the testimony about dalia trying to poison her husband should never have been allowed, but by now she was cooked. Perhaps her last ray of hope for freedom came in a petition to the Supreme Court of the united states, but her case was denied. So Dalia Dippolito, the real housewife of Boynton Beach, who became a reality tv sensation is now w42222. Yes, real li. Gentlemen, thank you for coming. [ cheers and applause ] now, the reason i asked you all here is because we only have until the end of march to get something done in the middle east. And thats hard to do when you, senator cotton, are sending letters to the iranian government behind my back. Yes, i did. All right. Or when you, speaker boehner, are inviting the Prime Minister of israel to speak to Congress Without consulting with me